If youfollow my YouTube channel , you belike saw the little video I did last workweek on plant a coconut .
For years I told myself I ’d yield to a tropical mood … one solar day … and plant cocoa palm .
I grow up in South Florida at the very same house where Dad and I plantedThe Great South Florida Food Forest Project .
A twain of days ago , I posted a picture of one of the many coconut palm tree on our Modern homestead on Instagram :
Coconuts on one of our Tree . get it on it . # gardening # gardening # tropical # coconut # botany
A photo posted by David Good ( @david_t_good ) onJun 17 , 2016 at 8:06am PDT
If you live in a office where you may plant coconut , I hope you ’re planting some !
A pattern I see again and again in South Florida was coco palms growing in yards as ornamental … with the coconuts rarely if ever being used .
Coconut water isgood for youand refreshing , coconut milk is a great addition to your sunup cereal or a curry swither and the coco palm meat is wonderful shredded and added to desserts .
Quite a few people in South Florida have told me they do n’t use their coconuts because they ’re “ too much trouble to open . ”
Yeah , I get that . We often are n’t even sure when to spread out them and we hold back until they ’re whole hard and brown before stress to hack into them with a screwdriver and a hammer .
Fortunately , all you really need are your tooth :
I dare you guy wire to try that at home .
Okay , let ’s count more at establish a coconut palm with the spirit of develop a coconut decoration , since this is n’t really supposed to be a post on using cocoa palm .
Planting Coconuts
so as to get a coconut to shoot , you need to first start up with a mature junkie that has milk at bottom . Once you plant that , it ’s just a matter of await . Further directions for indoor and out-of-door germination are inthis PDF from the University of Hawaii :
“ To uprise a coco palm medal as a family plant life , use a container at least 10 inches deep and large enough in diam to hold the nut . Use a well drained potting soil mix . After soaking the nut , plant it with the pointed end down and the death that was attach to the tree up . About a third of the nut should be above the dirt level . weewee it frequently , sustain the soil moist but not wet . As long as the grime enfeeble well , it is difficult to give the germinating egg too much piddle . Keep the container in a warm emplacement , preferably where the temperature never fall below 70oF and often is above 80oF. A container specimen should mature to be around 5 ft high and survive in the same container for about five years .
To produce the coconut in your G , pick out a site with well dead soil in fond tincture . station the testis on its side in a shallow hole , burying only the lower third of the nut . Water it good twice a week .
Under ideal condition , a cocoanut will germinate in three month , but otherwise it may take up to six months . At germination , the source should push out through the husk , and the first shoot , looking like a sharp light-green spear , will come out from the cavity at the end of the nut that was sequester to the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . ”
All you need to do is just bury a coconut part way and keep it watered . If it ’s viable , it will grow .
My grandpop used to stuff coconut palm into the hole the land crab would make in his backyard in an attempt to slow down their ravishment on his St. Augustine skunk . finally , some of them would spud and he ’d have to pull them out before they got too bounteous .
you’re able to often find baby coconut sprout in untended areas around coconut palms where the nuts have simply come to rest on the dirt . They transplant readily and will happily grow even in Lucius Clay filth , provide they do n’t ever freeze .
This garden based on coconut palms is a decent projection ( albeit with irritating medicine and random motion-picture photography ):
If you may originate coco palm , produce ’em !
BONUS FEATURE:
Here ’s the coconut analog to my Bilimbi picture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmMrwFgKRbE
